When Stelios Yamalis and his mother, Fedra, arrived at Madison Square Garden on Tuesday night for Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals, they found blue T-shirts — “Always Knicks” splashed across the front, a corporate sponsor logo on the sleeve — draped over the backs of their ...

It’s a crisp spring night, and the 25 televisions at Hooters are showing baseball, hockey and basketball. For decades, the chain has provided a haven for men who like to congregate over cold beer, hot chicken wings and hotter waitresses. On a night like this, the Hooters in ...

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.Brian ReaAll Those NotesMy daughter, age 44, has died. One thing I’ve learned from this hideous experience is that all those sympathy notes I’ve written over these many years did matter, because the ones I’ve received ...

It was the one thing on which every major player could agree.When it comes to Musk vs. Altman, the verdict is in.In the Oakland, Calif., trial in which Elon Musk accused Sam Altman and OpenAI of “stealing” the nonprofit in order to enrich themselves, and they accused him ...

A reader dreads the thought of chiding his parents for their distracted babysitting, but he has already noticed the potential risks of their inattention.My wife and I have noticed that our Gen X parents have a problem with their phones: They scroll endlessly. It came to a head ...

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‘I was so scared that I was going to be incapable of taking care of this human life that was about to come into the world.’Lauren Bans was seven months pregnant when she realized she needed a divorce. Suddenly, she found herself heartbroken, terrified, and completely unable to ...

It was just a simple toy: Tickle Me Elmo, a plush doll that giggled when it was squeezed.What it sparked, though, was far less innocent, a frenzy that spilled into chaos as people clawed and shoved one another in a desperate attempt to get their hands on the ...

The pocket watches, a collaboration with the luxury timepiece maker Audemars Piguet, drew crowds to stores and malls around the world.The Swiss watchmaker Swatch closed dozens of its stores on Saturday as vast crowds lined up to attempt to snag Royal Pop pocket watches from its collaboration with ...

As I watched my husband’s dot go to places he loved, I felt newly connected to him. But could I protect him?The third time my husband complained about not being able to refill his subway card, I began to worry that the vending machine wasn’t the problem. When ...

Late at night, after his wife and his two teenage daughters go to bed, Kurt Vile heads down to the recording studio he built in the basement of his house in Philadelphia. He calls it OKV Central — “OKV” stands for Overnite Kurt Vile — and he rolls ...

For some watch fans, the Royal Pop was a royal letdown.In the end, it wasn’t so much a wristwatch as it was … a key chain?Earlier this week, watch fans turned feral over the announcement that Audemars Piguet was collaborating with Swatch, the mass-market retailer whose timepieces are ...

Traditional Soaps May Be Waning, but Our Stories Are Sudsier Than EverEven though only four original soap operas remain on the air, our appetite for high drama has never been more insatiable.“Every show that is hugely popular is a soap opera,” said Rebecca Budig, who stars in “The ...

A trailer heralds the latest spinoff from the Trump administration.Since it was unveiled last weekend, the trailer for “The Great American Road Trip,” the five-part reality TV show starring the transportation secretary, Sean Duffy, his wife and their nine kids, has driven an unexpected amount of attention his ...

A couple of weeks ago, a gaggle of freshmen at McCallum High School in Austin, Texas, pulled out a pouch the size of a clementine and began batting it back and forth between their feet.“It took a minute for me to realize, Wait, this is hacky sack,” said ...